Dallas Business JournalThe five fastest growing mid-sized technology companies in North Texas were honored at Tech Titans' Fast Tech event at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
The companies, who have revenue of at least $2 million, were measured by their revenue growth from 2013 to 2015. In total, 25 companies will be honored at the Tech Titans Awards Gala.READ MORE

InformationAgeIn 2015, the Chinese e-commerce market generated an estimated $562 billion in sales, with shopping named as the fastest-growing online activity among Chinese consumers.
Though the rise of e-commerce is hardly a surprise at this point, the global reach and consistent growth in this sector make it one of the most significant global trends.READ MORE

Fast CompanyAfter a data center outage caused Delta Air Lines to cancel more than 2,100 flights, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the company's doing everything it can to make sure such an event never happens again.
"This isn't the quality of service, the reliability that you've come to expect from Delta Air Lines," he said in a statement, after the company offered $200 vouchers to customers whose flights were canceled. "We're very sorry. I'm personally very sorry."READ MORE

Business InsiderAudi has figured out a way to make sitting in traffic a less white-knuckling experience.
The luxury car-maker announced it's bringing a traffic light timer to its vehicle dashboards, and will start rolling it out in some major US cities by the end of the year.READ MORE

ZDNetThe conversation around whether it's a good idea for a business to migrate their on-premises legacy infrastructure into the cloud is no longer the focus, according to Bulletproof CEO Anthony Woodward. Rather, many C-level executives are now looking at what are the best ways to use the so-called cornerstone tool to transform their business.
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InformationWeekBusinesses are scrambling to hire IT professionals with knowledge and experience in cybersecurity. A shortage of skilled cybersecurity practitioners is leaving organizations across all industries vulnerable to attack.
The risk is severe. Research firm Vanson Bourne was commissioned by Intel Security to survey IT decision-makers in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Mexico and Israel. Most of the survey's 775 respondents report a shortage of cybersecurity talent; one in three said this makes them key targets for hackers.
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InformationWeekFlash memory is being drawn into the mainstream of enterprise storage, but its tendency to deteriorate with use remains an Achilles' heel. A paper released at the Aug. 9 start of the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California, finds that machine learning can counteract that deterioration and drastically extend its life cycle.
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The Dallas Morning NewsDallas accelerator Tech Wildcatters will invest $100,000 in one of the startups in its program, the largest single investment in its seven-year history.
For Tech Wildcatters, the investment is part of a strategy to double down on the startups in its portfolio and help them scale, so they're attractive candidates for acquisitions, initial public offerings or similar liquidity events, CEO Gabriella Draney Zielke said.READ MORE

ForbesIt might sound counter-intuitive: we usually want our electronic devices to last as long as possible, not to disappear prematurely. But just shift your perspective and the idea of transient technologies, able to self-destruct, starts to make sense.
Self-dissolving implants able to dissolve in water, leaving little or no trace of their existence when their job is done, could be useful, for instance, for medical or military purposes. No waste, no need to pull the device back out (with possible complications) after a surgery, no evidence of what happened.READ MORE

CIOThe role of technology leaders has evolved as organizations continue to embrace the competitive advantages tech initiatives can bring to their organizations.
While innovation and problem solving are vitally important skills, there are other traits that consistently appear in top tech leaders that are worth adopting. READ MORE

MIT Technology ReviewEight paraplegics who used their thoughts to operate a robotic exoskeleton regained partial feeling and control over their legs, according to a study that points to a possible new type of rehabilitation therapy.
The study, published in Scientific Reports, is a follow-up to a highly publicized spectacle during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in which a paralyzed patient was shown on television using a brain-controlled robotic exoskeleton to kick a soccer ball.READ MORE

InformationWeekA study examined scores of employee reviews on IT job search site Glassdoor to identify the four corporate culture traits most attractive to top-notch tech talent.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Liechtenstein and the IT University of Copenhagen, used a sophisticated machine learning model to examine 112,610 employee reviews posted on Glassdoor about companies in the information technology (IT) industry.
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